Editing Papyrus 140

'''Papyrus 140''' (designated as 𝔓<sup>140</sup> in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering system) is a small surviving portion of a handwritten copy of part of the [[New Testament]] in [[Greek language|Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] [[manuscript]] of the [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]]. The text survives on a single fragment of a [[codex]], the recto containing the initial letters of 4 lines of the second column of a page, and the verso the final letters of 4 lines (plus minimal traces of a fifth) of the first column of the next page. The manuscript has been assigned [[Palaeography|paleographically]] to the fifth century.

== Location ==
𝔓<sup>140</sup> is housed at the Papyrological Institute in Florence, Italy.

== Textual Variants ==
* 7:54-55 According to the PSI reconstruction, the recto reads:
:επ α̣υ̣τ̣ο̣[ν πληρηϲ
:δε ϋπ̣[αρχων
:πν̅ι α̣[γιω ατε-
:νιϲα[ϲ ειϲ τον
demonstrating a transposition of πληρηϲ and ϋπ̣αρχων, and a change from the genitive πν̅ϲ α̣γιου to the dative πν̅ι α̣γιωp, as compared to the reading in most manuscripts of Acts.
* 7:57-58 According to the PSI reconstruction, the verso reads:
:οµοθ]υµαδο[ν
:επ αυ]τον εκ-
:βαλον]τεϲ δε
:εξω τη]ϲ πολε
:ωϲ ελιθο]β̣[ολουν

showing the omission of Greek: και at the beginning of verse 58.

== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament papyri]]

== References ==

{{DEFAULTSORT:Papyrus 0140}}
[[Category:New Testament papyri]]
[[Category:5th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament]]

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